Having worked as a professional musician, a music-educator, and the Executive Director of a number of non-profit arts organizations, Beth has over 10 years of experience in catering to the unique needs of artists. Beth believes that the talent, education, and skill-sets of her clients have inherent worth. As a passionate artist advocate, she aims to help her artists improve the quality of their own lives by encouraging them to honor the value of their own work, and by creating materials which allow them to champion their art with confidence. Equally interested in building community, Beth aims to create a roster of artists who are excited to support and collaborate together.

Tonight I sat in on a rehearsal for Conspirare's innovative "The Poet Sings" recital series of songs based solely on the poetry of Sister Emily Dickinson and it was incredibly moving. ‪#‎ATX‬, you have to make it out to this thing next Sunday. Sonja, Eric, and Michelle are bringing world-class artistry to an incredibly, thoughtfully curated program of music...and POETRY! It feels like an organic, Emily version of "Die Wintereisse," and I'm honored to have seen it in its nascent form tonight (and be on the program twice!).

I've known Sonja for years through my collaborations with Lorelei Ensemble and have marvelled at her artistry every time she works with our hometown Conspirare. Her rendition of "I cannot be ashamed" will inevitably bring tears to my eyes. I'm so excited to collaborate with Eric for the first time and his reading of "Bind me" is a master class of vocal colors and subtle characterization orbiting around virtuosic technique.

Make it to this concert, you guys. You will take something away from it.

Having worked as a professional musician, a music-educator, and the Executive Director of a number of non-profit arts organizations, Beth has over 10 years of experience in catering to the unique needs of artists. Beth believes that the talent, education, and skill-sets of her clients have inherent worth. As a passionate artist advocate, she aims to help her artists improve the quality of their own lives by encouraging them to honor the value of their own work, and by creating materials which allow them to champion their art with confidence. Equally interested in building community, Beth aims to create a roster of artists who are excited to support and collaborate together.

I'm super excited to be joining the faculty of the Austin Chamber Music Centerfor the fall season! They do brilliant work here in the city and I couldn't be more honored to work among the likes of folks like Graham Reynolds, Steven Snowden, and Dr. Hermes Camacho. I'm back to teaching young adults the wonders of music theory. Huge thanks to my brilliant colleague, Alex Newton, for repping me enough that they hired me. Whoo-whoo!

Having worked as a professional musician, a music-educator, and the Executive Director of a number of non-profit arts organizations, Beth has over 10 years of experience in catering to the unique needs of artists. Beth believes that the talent, education, and skill-sets of her clients have inherent worth. As a passionate artist advocate, she aims to help her artists improve the quality of their own lives by encouraging them to honor the value of their own work, and by creating materials which allow them to champion their art with confidence. Equally interested in building community, Beth aims to create a roster of artists who are excited to support and collaborate together.

One of the things I love about writing vocal music is that every so often I'm challenged by a collaborator to step outside my proverbial linguistic comfort zone. One of those opportunities just came up as Minneapolis-based mezzo Melissa Holm-Johansen Culloton commissioned an art song in her native tongue, Norwegian. I've set texts in English, Latin, German, French, Spanish, and even Urdu but I've always secretly wanted to try my hand at this language. It has such elegant diacritics.

We settled on a text by the Norwegian poet Rolf Jacobsen which is gorgeous. For a single line he drops into German using a quote from Schiller's "Ode an die Freude" (there is a famous setting of it by Beethoven you may have heard...;););). Johann Strauss II also used that same line as a title to a piece he dedicated to Brahms so there's plenty of material to mine from, you guys.

Having worked as a professional musician, a music-educator, and the Executive Director of a number of non-profit arts organizations, Beth has over 10 years of experience in catering to the unique needs of artists. Beth believes that the talent, education, and skill-sets of her clients have inherent worth. As a passionate artist advocate, she aims to help her artists improve the quality of their own lives by encouraging them to honor the value of their own work, and by creating materials which allow them to champion their art with confidence. Equally interested in building community, Beth aims to create a roster of artists who are excited to support and collaborate together.

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Blissed out after a grooming. Overheard in the room: "Obi's drunk on brush." #ObergefellTheCat

One of the people in this photo borrowed my sunglasses. #MaximumEffort

#tbt to that time #TheBerto told me he asked me to take a picture because he "wanted to impress the judges." There were literally no other people in the room except for @chelseabiggerstaff. #GoofusToTheMax

A random couple Austin-ing SO hard at Shakespeare In The Park last night. I never thought of using an empty Tidy Cat litter container as a cooler before. That's some next-level catladyness. #respect

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
The amount of giddy joy surrounding this event is one of the most fun and goofy things Austin has ever given me. I remember watching the early seasons of "Arrested Development" when it was still on TV (when I still owned a TV) and actually campaigning for it to stay on the air. #TheBerto and I headed to downtown to do something I never thought I would do: climb up the Bluth Stair Car.
There were lots of funny goings on--the couple in front of us was dressed as Gob and Lucille II and their baby was dressed as Lucille Bluth--but my favorite moment was the teenage girl behind us trying to explain an episode to her dad (who obviously hadn't seen a single one but wanted to support his daughter by taking her to the event).

To any of you that saw that episode of "Last Week Tonight": this finally came in the mail...and it is unbelievably, heartwrenchingly CUTE to actually read. #FocusOnTheFurmily